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Title: Jean Francois Millet

Author: Estelle M. Hurll

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JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET

A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter,
with Introduction and Interpretation

by

ESTELLE M. HURLL

The Riverside Art Series

1900

[Illustration: JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET]

PREFACE

In making a selection of Millet's pictures, devoted as they are to
the single theme of French peasant life, variety of subject can be
obtained only by showing as many phases of that life as possible.
Our illustrations therefore represent both men and women working
separately in the tasks peculiar to each, and working together in the
labors shared between them. There are in addition a few pictures of
child life.

The selections include a study of the field, the dooryard, and
the home interior, and range from the happiest to the most sombre
subjects. They show also considerable variety in artistic motive and
composition, and taken together fairly represent the scope of Millet's
work.

ESTELLE M. HURLL. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. March, 1900.

CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES

PORTRAIT OF MILLET. DRAWN BY HIMSELF

INTRODUCTION

I. ON MILLET'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST

II. ON BOOKS OF REFERENCE

III. HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE PICTURES OF THIS COLLECTION

IV. OUTLINE TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN MILLET'S LIFE

V. SOME OF MILLET'S ASSOCIATES

I. GOING TO WORK

II. THE KNITTING LESSON

III. THE POTATO PLANTERS

IV. THE WOMAN SEWING BY LAMPLIGH